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Hello,

 

I am trying to find a way to share an image on my cache page so that the picture is at full resolution. When I upload the image to geocaching.com, the website lowers the image quality so it looks a little fuzzy. When I upload the image to an outside image hosting website, for some reason the image appears as "crunched" or shrunken on the cache page (will upload pic).

 

The image was made in photoshop and I have tried uploading it with a width of 670, 800, and 669. Does anyone know why this image would be altered? I have tried uploading to 5 different image hosting sites now and they all display the image in the same way.

 

The second pic is how the letter should appear.

crushed image.jpg

letter.jpg

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I uploaded it to a cache gallery and don't see any difference between the one above and the uploaded one.  Is the one posted a fuzzy version or a good one?  I usually run my web browser with a zoom of up to 150%, but that tends to make photos look bad.  Unless the white border is part of the puzzle, you could do away with that and have a larger "letter" and larger text that's still sharp (depending on how you made the image).

 

The site currently seems OK with images less than 2000 x 2000 pixels, where the image arrives as is, not resized nor compressed.  But this changes frequently, and sometimes temporarily gets way out of whack.

 

I don't know what could cause the file to be smashed like the first one, but I don't bother with picture hosting sites except for mine. I once uploaded a PDF file to my own site so that people may easily print a full-page puzzle form, for a cache.

 

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I always use the geocaching page as an image host for my puzzle caches. 

 

You can get two levels of quality from your photos on the geocaching listing. If you upload a photo to the cache page, you'll get a link to the image in this format:

https://img.geocaching.com/cache/large/imageabc123.jpg

 

You can remove the word "large" to get a bigger (uncompressed?) image

https://img.geocaching.com/cache/imageabc123.jpg

 

In the image I used as an example from one of my listings, the first image, when opened and saved to my desktop, was 104KB, while the second was 550KB.

 

I had to use the second, uncompressed image, for one of my puzzles, which had an image hidden within another image.  The compressed image didn't work with the tools required to find the hidden image, but using the uncompressed image worked.

 

Does that help?  I hope so.  

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Gave an example from one of my puzzles
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Hi GeoElmo6000,

 

That does indeed sound like exactly what I am looking for. My photo links all look something like this though: 

 

h ttps://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/903c9086-234d-43b7-8cec-e4eba8d44463_l_l.png

 

So I am not sure where to find the "img.geocaching.com/cache/large" extension for my photos. 

 

I goto my cache page, hit edit, scroll down to the bottom and hit "upload image." Is there a separate location where I should be uploading to? How do you get that extension on your photos?

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

 
 

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33 minutes ago, Forest-Ghost said:

So I am not sure where to find the "img.geocaching.com/cache/large" extension for my photos. 

 

It is the link to the image from the gallery before the link is opened. I grab the link from right mouse button menu / copy link address.

 

For example this image

 

https://img.geocaching.com/cache/large/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d.jpg

 

changes to this when opened

 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d_l.jpg

 

The original link is available from the thumbnail in the gallery.

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53 minutes ago, Forest-Ghost said:

That does indeed sound like exactly what I am looking for. My photo links all look something like this though: 

 

h ttps://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/903c9086-234d-43b7-8cec-e4eba8d44463_l_l.png

 

14 minutes ago, arisoft said:

 

Forest-Ghost, what arisoft said is helpful.  You'll see the link I mentioned on your cache listing page just before the log area after you upload the image.

 

Another shortcut is that the uncompressed image doesn't have the _l at the end before the .jpg.  If you remove that, you'll get the same image but uncompressed.

 

I can see a difference using arisoft's example:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d_l.jpg

vs

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/cbeda0bb-de40-464d-b296-f96f2f39c09d.jpg

 

The letter example you gave has two _l's before the .png for some reason, so I removed both and it's a slightly better image:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/903c9086-234d-43b7-8cec-e4eba8d44463.png

 

Once again, I hope this helps.

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fixed hyperlinks
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